SAE Projects
Supervised Agricultural Experience
Due: Wednesday, May 8th 2013 (presentations on the 8th and 9th).
What It Is: You are to perform a task or activity that fits into one of the 31 UHS
SAE Areas (available from Mr. Emmert) that is somehow agriculturally or
agriscience related (think outside the box here). Having a job or volunteer position
or job shadowing can count in many cases.
Things such as taking care of pets, yard or lawn work, tutoring or work in a
restaurant can count.
What You Need to Do: After performing or doing your task or activity, you are to
create a visual presentation (PowerPoint, Scrapbook, Prezi, Album, Poster, etc.)
with a description of what you did, the category it fits into, how it is ag or science
related in some way, and pictures of you while doing it.
This is a SUMMATIVE grade and will serve as a capstone project of your
agricultural class experience.
Per Public Law 105-225 SAE is defined as in integral part of agricultural education
for all students enrolled in agricultural education classes (Ag Foundations AND
Biotech 2 and 3) whether they are FFA members or not.
The best SAE Project/Program in each category will receive the “Class SAE
Award“ at the annual FFA Chapter Banquet on May 16th in recognition for their
hard work and ALL students will receive a grade as this assignment is mandatory.
If You Have Any Questions, See Mr. E.
My SAE Category: _______________________________________________
My SAE is/will be:
SAE Ideas
Here are some ideas for your SAE by category. These categories encompass just
about an agricultural activity that can be counted as a SAE project, and if you have
any more ideas, just ask! ALL Students will be required to complete an SAE project
of some type whether long or short term.
*Job “Shadowing” in any of these areas may also count as an SAE project in many
cases.*
Agricultural Communications: Use of communication media to tell the broad story
of some type of agriculture. Examples: Maintain and publish a website on an
agricultural topic, publish a newsletter for an agricultural organization, or work or
volunteer for an Ag publication.
Agricultural Education: Educating the people about agriculture, science, Ag
education, and the FFA. Examples: Teach young children about food and agriculture
serve as a science or Ag teacher’s assistant, tutor other students in ag/science
classes, Ag awareness activities.
Ag Mechanics Design and Fabrication: Designing and constructing various
fixtures and materials relating to mechanics and agriculture. Examples: Design a
plumbing or heating system, create metal art by welding, help design electrical,
HVAC, or plumbing systems.
Ag Mechanics Repair and Maintenance: Being involved with repairing and
maintaining agricultural equipment. Examples: Repair lawn or other mechanical
equipment, perform automotive maintenance (ex. oil change, tire rotation), maintain
construction equipment.
Agricultural Processing: Processing bare or raw agricultural food and non-food
products into edible or useable products (not cooking). Examples: Can and preserve
fruits and vegetables, process game (eg. deer, hogs) from hunting, make produce
juices or jams.
Agricultural Sales: Selling an agricultural product whether it is for your own or
another business. Examples: Work as a sales or stock person or cashier in a home
improvement, hardware, grocery, farm supply, feed stores or other ag related
business.
Agricultural Services: Being involved with an agricultural service not covered in
another area. Examples: Taxidermy, financial, auctioneering, and horseshoeing.
Agriscience Research: Conducting your own ONGOING agriscience fair or
research project or experiment in one of the five National FFA Agriscience Fair
categories.
Beef Production: Any SAE that involves beef cattle. Examples: Work or volunteer
at a farm or ranch that raises cattle, raise your own cattle for show, raise and
market steers at fairs or for slaughter, assist in managing cattle.
Diversified Agricultural Production: Raising, planting, or caring for at least one
type of plant AND animal. Examples: Home vegetable garden and family pet,
livestock and crop operation.
Diversified Horticulture: Planting, raising, and caring for more than one type of
plant. Examples: Fruit and vegetable garden, herb and wheat garden, fruit and
flower garden.
Diversified Livestock: Raising and caring for MORE than one type of livestock,
poultry, or small animal. Examples: Cattle and goats, dogs and fish, hogs and
poultry, rabbits and sheep.
Environmental Science and Natural Resources: Experience concerned with the
principles and practices of managing and/or improving the environment and natural
resources. Examples: Being fully responsible for recycling around the home,
conducting or participating in a community cleanup, management and conservation
of natural resources and lands.
Equine Science: Any SAE having to deal with horses or other equine species in
addition to riding alone. Examples: Caring for your own or someone else’s horse(s),
working at a riding stable or training facility, volunteer at a horse rescue or
therapy riding facility.
Food Science and Technology: Anything dealing with food production, preparation,
or research. Examples: Continually cooking and improving a recipe, working a host,
hostess, server, or cook at a restaurant, continually cooking at home for your
family.
Fruit Production: Planting and maintaining your own fruit crops ONLY. Examples:
Plant and take care of fruit seeds in the landlab, plant fruits at home, work at an
orchard or grove.
Goat Production: Any SAE dealing with dairy, meat, pygmy, or fiber goats.
Examples: Show a goat in a local fair or show, work on a goat farm, help with goat
milking or shearing.
Home and/or Community Development: SAE’s dealing with improving an aspect of
the home or community. Examples: Participate in community beautification,
babysitting, and other volunteer work with agricultural aspects that doesn’t fit
anywhere else.
Landscape Management: Projects dealing with out or indoor landscaping,
shrubbery management, grounds keeping, or irrigation. Examples: Taking care of a
home flowerbed, weeding, home landscaping, installing irrigation systems or working
as grounds maintenance other than lawn mowing.
Nursery Operations: SAE’s dealing with propagating or selling young plants or
working at a nursery. Examples: Work or volunteer at a local nursery, propagating
starter plants for sale to consumers, propagating starter plants for sale.
Outdoor Recreation: Includes performing, guiding, or coordinating recreational
activities for or with others WITHOUT owning or managing animals. Examples:
Assisting with a local rodeo or riding stable, guiding hunting or fishing excursions,
or working at an outdoor leisure facility.
Poultry Production: Any SAE having to deal with any species of poultry excluding
wild ducks and game. Examples: Raising chickens for meat or eggs, managing ducks
or geese in a pond, showing poultry in local fairs and shows, raising turkeys for
meat production.
Sheep Production: Any SAE dealing with sheep production whether for wool, meat,
milk, or pleasure. Examples: Raising your own sheep for wool or milk, assist with
sheep shearing, raise and show breeding sheep at fairs, raise wether lambs for
market.
Small Animal Production and Care: Any SAE dealing with one or more types of
small animals (pets) ONLY such as dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets,
hamsters/gerbils, and reptiles. Examples: Taking care of a family pet, working at a
pet store, volunteering or working at a pet rescue, shelter, or care facility with
small animals.
Specialty Animal Production: Any SAE dealing with caring for animals not covered
in any other category such as fish, bees, llamas, or exotics (excluding reptiles).
Examples: Care for your own specialty animal, work or volunteer at a facility that
cares for these animals, work or volunteer at a local zoological park or petting zoo.
Specialty Crop Production: Any SAE dealing with growing and maintaining an
appropriate legal crop not covered in any other category such as native plants,
peanuts, seeds, herbs and spices, grains, mushrooms, sugar cane, or other
ornamental crops.
Swine Production: Any SAE dealing with swine production or care including
miniature pigs, excluding hog hunting. Examples: Work or volunteer at an operation
dealing with swine production, raise and show your own hogs at fairs, care for a pet
mini pig, or raising and selling feeder pigs to a grower or to market.
Turf Grass Management: Any SAE dealing with managing grass or turf including
lawn mowing. Examples: Mowing a lawn at home, working for a business that
provides mowing or other service to customers, sports field management, sod
laying.
Vegetable Production: Any SAE dealing with the planting, growing, and
maintenance of vegetables. Examples: Care for vegetable seedlings at the landlab,
having a home garden of only vegetables, or work for an operation that deals with
vegetable production.
Veterinary Medicine: SAE’s dealing with any aspect of working with people and
establishments that provide large or small animal veterinary medical services.
Examples: Volunteering at a vet office, serving as a veterinary assistant, helping to
manage a vet clinic, or working on legislation or regulations regarding animals
excluding animal rights.
Wildlife Production and Management: Any SAE dealing with improving the
availability or stock of wildlife, fish and game or land improvement. Examples:
Practice sustainable hunting techniques in personal hobbies; work with the Dept. of
Nat. Resources or Fish and Wildlife Dept, nuisance and hunt trapping, or
conservation land improvement.